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    Pope Arrives In Lebanon With Message Of Peace For Crisis-Hit Country

    By EditorDecember 1, 2025
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    Pope Leo XIV looks on during a welcome ceremony upon arriving at Beirut International Airport, in the Lebanese capital, on November 30, 2025. Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon with a message of peace for the crisis-hit nation, still reeling from a war between Israel and Hezbollah and the conflict's lingering aftereffects. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)

    POPE Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon on Sunday with a message of peace for the crisis-hit nation, still reeling from a war between Israel and Hezbollah and the conflict’s lingering aftereffects.

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    The pope had previously visited Turkey, where he kicked off his maiden overseas tour after being elected leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in May.

    Leo arrived in Beirut shortly before 3:45 pm (13:45 GMT) and was met by officials, including President Joseph Aoun, the Arab world’s only Christian head of state.

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    The two-nation tour is a test for the first American pope, whose understated style contrasts with that of his charismatic and impulsive predecessor, Francis.

    Lebanon rolled out the red carpet and a 21-gun salute for Leo, who was also greeted at the airport by children and a brass band as ships at the port sounded their horns.

    “I came to say that the Lebanese are one people, and we are united,” Zahra Nahleh, 19, from Lebanon’s war-ravaged south, told AFP as she waited along the road from the airport to welcome the pontiff.

    “The pope is not just for Christians but for Muslims too, and we love him a lot… We want him to bless our land; we wish he could visit the south.”

    Although Leo’s four-day visit drew little attention in Turkey, a Muslim-majority nation whose Christian community numbers only around 100,000, his 48-hour stopover has been eagerly awaited in Lebanon, a religiously diverse country of around six million people.

    Long hailed as a model of coexistence, Lebanon since 2019 has been ravaged by successive crises, from economic collapse to a devastating Beirut port blast in 2020 to the recent war between militant group Hezbollah and Israel, which largely ended with a ceasefire last November.

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    Leo is expected to bring a message of peace to the country, whose last papal visitor was Benedict XVI in 2012.

    Christians play a key political role in Lebanon, where the post of president is reserved for a Maronite Christian — but they have seen their numbers dwindle, particularly due to emigration.

    Leo is to hold talks with Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the presidential palace and will make a speech to authorities and diplomats at 6:00 pm on Monday (1600 GMT).

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    Youth scouting groups affiliated with Hezbollah were waiting to welcome the pope along the road in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the Iran-backed militants hold sway and where posters of slain chief Hassan Nasrallah appeared near billboards welcoming the pontiff.

    On Saturday, Hezbollah had urged the pope to reject Israeli “injustice and aggression” against Lebanon.

    Israel has kept up regular raids on Lebanon, usually saying it is striking Hezbollah targets, despite the truce that was supposed to end more than a year of hostilities, including two months of open war with the group.

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